disarrange
verb (used with object)
to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
has disarranged
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present perfectof disarrange (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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For example, if we heat a magnet red hot it loses its magnetism, perhaps because the heat has disarranged the particles and set the molecular poles in all directions.
From The Story of Electricity by John Munro
You are, of course, very much disturbed at the moment," Holmes went on, "and I am really very sorry if anything I have done has disarranged any honorable enterprise in which you have embarked.
From R. Holmes & Co. by John Kendrick Bangs
God, bring them back just as they went away; A little wiser, maybe, but unchanged In all the vital things—let them today Take up the lives that war has disarranged.
From Cross Roads by Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth) Sangster
Jasper, allow me to advise you to smooth the hair which your sleep has disarranged.
From The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation A Christmas Story by Louisa May Alcott
The catastrophe has disarranged its course, but it still revolves in a prolonged orbit around the sun, carrying its broken débris in a long trail behind it.
From Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly
